[PS4] Over 2 Million Adventurers on PlayStation 4!

strumslinger · September 2016

We’re celebrating two months on PlayStation®4 this entire week with events around every corner! We’d also like to share some statistics on how successful Neverwinter has been in this short amount of time. From how many players have journeyed the Sword Coast to the amount of guilds formed, you’ll find our Double Monthiversary Infographic below.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/10158512-over-2-million-adventurers-on-playstation®4!

gankdalf · September 2016

Out of 2m players only 30 000 reached 70? Is it just me, or does that sound very wrong? :S

mystocles · September 2016

pft.

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ravenskya · September 2016

I missed the cut down half of the dungeons thing - what happened to the Dungeons?

oldbaldyone · September 2016

ravenskya said:
I missed the cut down half of the dungeons thing - what happened to the Dungeons?

As far as PS4 is concerned, nothing. In terms of PC, they eliminated a lot of dungeons back in Mod 6, along with a reduction in variety of armors, and a rebalance of the 3 dungeons that remained (there were like 12 I think).

As to the 4 million stat, without context, thats just a number. How many are actively logging in daily? Its a FREE game, so a good million played it long enough to create an account and left. I could easily believe you have 4m accounts created. I doubt even half of those are active.

krowsys · September 2016

They made this announcement because those numbers are plummetting and will never be that high again for various reasons. After removing the free AD for invoking a few weeks ago they lost most of their Bot armies.

Dungeons & Dragons as a franchise lost my patronage for the most part when PWE, Cryptic or whoever thought they could rip us off during the several months long forum war over the(Spend over $100.00 = Death Slaad, Phase Spider and Scorpion Account-wide Unlock.) Promotion.

The various changes to items like Unbound to Bounding to character or account done to Lockbox keys, Bags of Holding and other items months after purchasing was insulting.

The level of disrespect for paying customers we experienced here was unacceptable. I myself only log in for my daily VIP key and once that expires I don't think I will return except to gift my items to any friends still interested in trying NWO in the future.

There is always hope things here will improve but can NWO ever be trusted again? If not there are hundreds of other games online some of which I enjoy playing with friends.

STO is still in top 5 of all time. Been in there for so many years and never felt cheated or been disappointed.

-Krow

beckylunatic · September 2016

http://massivelyop.com/2016/09/14/neverwinter-claims-12-million-players-across-all-platforms/

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zebular · September 2016

joe123thewayward said:
question Andy. Is that 2 million accounts or 2 million characters?

Accounts, the very next one says 3.2 million characters.

elrondknight · September 2016

ravenskya said:
I missed the cut down half of the dungeons thing - what happened to the Dungeons?

In the beginning, each adventure zone had it's own dungeon, the only exceptions being PE & blacklake district. When they upped the end-game lvl from 60 to 70, they started introducing epic versions of the dungeons. They cut it back from ~12 down to 3. later they brought back 3 more.

ranox410 · September 2016

is this aniversary the reason why I cant buy Zen through Steam when i am using the Steam Version of this game ??????? i am kinda pissed so i am trying to refrain from using unsavoury words but yeah i am kinda pissed i already send a ticket i hope it gets fixed fast.

archanarchist · September 2016

lol 30,000 players and 1.5 million bots... definitely on track to sink like pc version

sorvikcorsair · September 2016

krowsys said:

STO is still in top 5 of all time. Been in there for so many years and never felt cheated or been disappointed.

-Krow

Play KDF, we are getting shafted right now

bathsheaba · September 2016

Only 30 000 players have reached the max cap out of 12 million players ? If I was Cryptic I wouldn't brag about it.

I have been in this games since june 2013.... bit by bit, although the story content becomes more sophisticated and interesting, I see that great drops are becoming a memory, salvageables are worth less, and wards much harder to obtain since their disappearance from the tarmalune store. I also see we need to spend more money for bags that you force us to fill for quests.... And now we can say good-bye to the Gateway.

30 000 out of 12 million is not a good ratio, but I guess who cares as long as people pay... Personnaly, I have given a few dollars here and there to the game, but not anymore.

ironzerg79 · September 2016

The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.

yokki1 · September 2016

ironzerg79 said:
The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.

seriously. whoever is wording their charts, their forum posts, their arc announcements should learn to do a better job. it is a continuous trend the misunderstandings, the loose wording, the non existent proofreading.

dupeks · September 2016

yokki1 said:

ironzerg79 said:
The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.
seriously. whoever is wording their charts, their forum posts, their arc announcements should learn to do a better job. it is a continuous trend the misunderstandings, the loose wording, the non existent proofreading.

Are you sure it's not intentionally their job to do just that?

Marketing is spin: this game isn't exactly setting records so they have to work with what they have... It's been pointed out that 12million accounts is definitely NOT the number people playing. But it looks good when you say that we have that many players globally, doesn't it?

solbergx · September 2016

You are always looking at the bad side of things!!!

someonedies · September 2016

dupeks said:

yokki1 said:

ironzerg79 said:
The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.
seriously. whoever is wording their charts, their forum posts, their arc announcements should learn to do a better job. it is a continuous trend the misunderstandings, the loose wording, the non existent proofreading.
Are you sure it's not intentionally their job to do just that?

Marketing is spin: this game isn't exactly setting records so they have to work with what they have... It's been pointed out that 12million accounts is definitely NOT the number people playing. But it looks good when you say that we have that many players globally, doesn't it?

98% of them - bots

xavior44 · September 2016

whatever makes them money.. we cant even get class balance for crist sake

plasticbat · September 2016

dupeks said:

yokki1 said:

ironzerg79 said:
The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.
seriously. whoever is wording their charts, their forum posts, their arc announcements should learn to do a better job. it is a continuous trend the misunderstandings, the loose wording, the non existent proofreading.
Are you sure it's not intentionally their job to do just that?

Marketing is spin: this game isn't exactly setting records so they have to work with what they have... It's been pointed out that 12million accounts is definitely NOT the number people playing. But it looks good when you say that we have that many players globally, doesn't it?

If we play their botting problem game, the problem may be caused by 10 million bot accounts.

pantherwitch4982 · September 2016

Anyone else thinking "whoopty freaking doo?"

mynaam · September 2016

someonedies said:

98% of them - bots

Maybe that is why they closed the gateway down to boost their player numbers

urabask · September 2016

someonedies said:

dupeks said:

yokki1 said:

ironzerg79 said:
The wording on that chart wasn't great at all.

That was 30,000 players on the PS4 that have reached level 70, not in general. The 12 million number was accounts created for PC, Xbox and PS4, with 2 million of those being on the PS4.
seriously. whoever is wording their charts, their forum posts, their arc announcements should learn to do a better job. it is a continuous trend the misunderstandings, the loose wording, the non existent proofreading.
Are you sure it's not intentionally their job to do just that?

Marketing is spin: this game isn't exactly setting records so they have to work with what they have... It's been pointed out that 12million accounts is definitely NOT the number people playing. But it looks good when you say that we have that many players globally, doesn't it?

98% of them - bots

It's just the number of accounts. It doesn't mean much because there are so many inactive accounts mixed in there.

jumpingmorks · September 2016

I also wonder if they counted the number of banned accounts in that figure too.

ecrana · September 2016

jumpingmorks said:
I also wonder if they counted the number of banned accounts in that figure too.

Most likely. It was registered accounts not active accounts. That's years worth of banned accounts, inactive accounts, sporadically used acccounts, and then whatever is left for active accounts.

ponneylord · September 2016

12 million players and you don't give a nut about them.

kemnimtarkas · September 2016

So right now the top 2 news stories on NW's own Arc Client feed:

"Over 2 million now playing on PS4!"

"Gateway Closing Down"

Embrace the irony.

jaysun1977 · September 2016

kemnimtarkas said:
So right now the top 2 news stories on NW's own Arc Client feed:

"Over 2 million now playing on PS4!"

"Gateway Closing Down"

Embrace the irony.

The funny thing about that is the numbers bloat. You have to ask yourself: "Why do they feel the need to be so disingenuous and why do they feel the need to present themselves as so much more successfull than they actually are?"

Out of these 12M registered accounts, 7M are from the PC platform. Given that we are currently sitting at somewhere between 25K and 50K players on PC that should give you an idea of the magnitude of this parlor trick.

They probably think we are nothign but brainless cash cows. It's been the tenor ever since and I have long since given up on the idea that they will ever have even a shred of respect for their paying customers. They think we are stupid and they think we don't notice how they keep dragging the wool over our eyes if not outright lying to us. They are that disingenuous of a company.

[PS4] Over 2 Million Adventurers on PlayStation 4!

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